A Trump-supporting former missionary who homeschools her children and lost a 2022 race for a local school board beat the incumbent Republican North Carolina state superintendent of schools in Tuesday’s primary, WTVD ABC 11 in Raleigh reports, putting another far-right radical on the November ballot in a state that will be targeted by both presidential candidates.
Republican Michele Morrow beat Catherine Truitt campaigning on the claim that the state’s public schools were indoctrinating students into “woke” ideology and left-wing ideas. She’ll take on Democrat Maurice “Mo” Green, a former Guilford County schools superintendent, for the state job.
According to the Raleigh News & Observer, Morrow holds many views popular with the far right that push away many voters, including posting that the US should “ban Islam” and “ban Muslims from elected offices.” Paired with a misogynist Holocaust denier running as the GOP’s nominee for North Carolina governor, and many voters will turn out to make sure three people don’t get into office.